Contents:
- Medical Video: How to be Productive
- What is the 80/20 diet?
- Guides undergo an 80/20 diet
- Be careful, the 80/20 diet can be ‘host food weapon’
Medical Video: How to be Productive
Ever heard of the 80/20 diet? Yes, a diet that has been carried out by many Hollywood artists, such as Jessica Alba, is considered to be an effective diet to lose weight and even prevent it from rising again. The 80/20 diet allows you to eat healthy foods as well as foods that you like - even if they are not healthy. Why, how come? Is this diet really good to apply?
What is the 80/20 diet?
This modern diet is not like other diets that require you to choose healthy foods or limit a type of food. The 80/20 diet is the principle of a diet that emphasizes eating regulation by consuming 80% of healthy food and the remaining 20% is the food you like.
Simply put: for 6 days a week mandatory eat healthy food, but you can freely eat anything on the 7th day or on weekends. Sounds pleasant enough compared to other diets? At least, you can still eat your favorite food once a week.
This method is considered more effective in reducing one's weight in a fairly fast time and can prevent weight gain in the future. A study conducted in 2014 stated that people can still lose weight after doing 'cheating' on weekends.
The study also found that even though people on this diet did not experience drastic weight loss, the risk was lower for heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, or other chronic diseases.
Guides undergo an 80/20 diet
The main principle of the 80/20 diet is planning and managing good eating. If you want to try this diet, then you have to determine the day in which you will have the freedom to eat foods that you like.
Remember, just one day in one week, the rest you have to keep discipline to eat healthy food. Healthy foods meant here are foods that do not undergo a lot of processing, low in fat and calories, and high in fiber.
You can also adjust your schedule in a week by planning an 80/20 diet. For example, when there are family events or invited by friends to hangout, then you can make your day your 'day of freedom'. So, you don't need to reject the invitation of friends or family to eat out.
Be careful, the 80/20 diet can be ‘host food weapon’
This current diet does sound tempting because 80% of your eating habits are filled with healthy foods, while 20% are more unhealthy delicacies. This diet can be effective if indeed you can calculate the exact amount junk food you eat. Is it right that you eat unhealthy food, only 20% of the total healthy food you have consumed before?
In fact, to date most people cannot properly calculate calories and portions of food they eat, so they are not aware that the food they have eaten is excessive.
This can happen if you apply the 80/20 diet. You might think that on weekends you can 'revenge' and then eat more than 20% of the provisions. But of course you are not aware of that. This condition, it will actually make your efforts for the previous 6 days in vain, because you miscalculated the 'free food' portion on weekends.
In essence, you can just apply it to reduce body weight. However, don't let you eat excessively unhealthy foods. Remember, the best diet is a diet that still refers to a balanced portion according to your calorie needs.
